Michael Thomas Harbuck
130 Anderson Road 
Roxboro, North Carolina
27573  USA

Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Marine Sciences
2800 Faucette Drive, R, 1125 Jordan Hall
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8208

								 The Fourteenth of June, 2006

Dear Sir or Madam, 

I am a young man who has studied for last six years in the fields of biology, zoology, and the marine sciences.  My goal to become an independant researcher has driven me to visit many universities, people and places on three continents.  In 2004 I had the pleasure of visiting Kenya, and the institutes there.  The preparations for my research project there are now complete, and I require an affiliation from an American organisation in order to be granted a research permit.  Would you please affiliate my general biology research on the littoral stomatopod.  I have included my resume, as well as the pertinent research information.  The small project with a two year time frame will be funded by myself, and other private sponsors.  For your afilliation you will receive a copy of each publication, reports from the field, data in the form of your choice, and of course mention in any third party publication such as National Geographic or other scientific periodicals.

It is often said that there are not enough general biology researchers, so I decided to give myself to this profession.  The project heirarchy will consist of myself, and the researchers from the University of Nairobi, Kenya.  I will write quarterly progress report to all of the associated organisations, sponsors and interested persons.  The team of researchers and organisations should be a formidable scientific force.  The first week or two will be spent at the university for purposes of organisation, then all active researchers will travel to the coastal areas of Kenya.  The collected data will be available to any and all organisations to use at no cost  (I will however accept donations to further other projects) as long as name is given to all project researchers.  I hope you find this acceptable, as it is a good practice.  All samples are property of Kenya, and will be kept by the according institute or department.  Permission to have samples tested outside of Kenya will be requested in writing for each laboratory or marine institute in question.  The project will be independant research with association with American, European, and Kenyan affiliation.  It is intended solely to further general information on the stomatopod species, and can be adapted to other species as well, in case you have other students interested in similar projects, and would like to perform a conjuctive study.  Please make this project information available to your students.

The next step for me is the research permit, which I have to apply for as soon as possible in order to start in 2007, and keep the project schedule.    

Therefore, would you please complete the portion of the form where the affiliation is requested, and return this to me.  I will in turn then send the completed forms to the Ministry of Science and Education of the Kenya government.  Any interested persons should contact me personally per post or email.

I have included the necessary form, a return envelope, and postage. 

Sincerely, 

Mr. Michael Thomas Harbuck  

michaelharbuck@compuserve.de